[Oldeconomybuyer]

"To begin withdrawing before our commanders tell us we are ready … would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to al Qaeda. It would mean that we’d be risking mass killings on a horrific scale. It would mean we’d allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan. It would mean increasing the probability that American troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous."

- George W. Bush, 2007

[Wuli]

Obama did not fight for or care if the U.S. got a SOFA agreement with Maliki, and minus a high level presidential push for one the U.S. did not get it.

With that and with the U.S. not even giving all the aid and assistance it had agreed to give without a SOFA, U.S. leverage with the Iraqi government amounted to nil, and the Iraqi leader, Maliki, began governing more as a Shia Muslim leader than the leader of Iraq.

As the Sunni anger with Maliki’s Shia-centric governance grew, so grew the numbers of outraged young Iraqi Sunni men who began to see ISIS as preferable to Maliki.

Two bumbling idiots, Obama and Maliki, helped produce the soil in Iraq for ISIS to grow in.

[Paid_Russian_Troll]

Hmmm. I haven’t seen any articles like this when Sunni terrorists dominated environment, to point at them as a problem. Now, there are groups to counter said terrorists and they ‘add insecurity’ according to LAT.
Kurds must be so happy they got so good press during the First Gulf War, otherwise the media might have been called their defiance to ISIS an ‘extremism, which adds to violence’.